2010 Gevrey-Chambertin, Domaine Denis Mortet

This wine is theoretically made from younger vines, but the average age is still 40! The power comes from Arnaud’s Au Vellé vineyard, the finesse from En Motrot. Together they make a beautifully sophisticated Gevrey-Chambertin which really scores on the palate for elegance, supple fruit and length.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Director

Arnaud Mortet is achieving his stated ambition to make fresher, more elegant wines than those of his father, and though some markets may not appreciate this refinement of style, we certainly do. There is less emphasis on extraction and on new oak, so the wines are a touch lighter in colour than they used to be, but fresher and perhaps more subtly nuanced. A great success in 2010.

Don’t Miss Wines from the 2010 Vintage
(from a mix of vines up to 50 years of age). Here the equally fresh nose is somewhat more deeply pitched with humus, earth and underbrush notes adding breadth to the cool dark berry fruit aromas. There is fine volume and precision to the medium-bodied flavors that are quite tightly wound on the linear finish. 2017+
(Allen Meadows - burghound.com - January 2012)